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6 pgmramp - generate a grayscale ramp
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10 pgmramp {-lr|-tb|-rectangle|-ellipse|-diagonal} [-maxval=maxval] width
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20 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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22 Generates a graymap of the specified size containing a black-to-white
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31 Options let you choose the shape of the ramp (left to right, inside
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42 ppmrainbow does something similar to what pgmramp does, but for color.
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98 Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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101 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
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